Emily Ratajkowskihas been looking for agency.
“It never felt like enough to just be a body,” she says.
Did you choose to include those as a means of getting closure?
THOMAS WHITESIDE / TRUNK ARCHIVE
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI:I did not.
I didn’t even really know what I was going to write about.
As I started to say, “Well, why did that happen to me?”
‘My Body’ by Emily Ratajkowski.Metropolitan Books
writing about it became a cathartic experience.
How did you decide that now was the right time to write a book?
Some responded and some didn’t, but it’s how I found my book agent.
You’re published by Metropolitan, which doesn’t often do “celebrity” books…
I think there’s a danger in every industry where people are just thinking about money.
So I chose an editor who made me feel like that was what she cared about too.
Are you seeking to be, or feel, understood by readers of your book?
Or is exploring what you wanted to and putting it out in the world enough?
Oh God, I wish I was that enlightened.
On a good day, I have those thoughts exactly like how you just said.
That’s how I should feel.
It should be enough.
But I want to be taken seriously.
This is my attempt at becoming a full person.
When something is in your own words, nothing can beat that.
But more than anything, I want to start conversations.
If my book could encourage a change, that would be really exciting.
Did that bolster you?
What is your writing process?
It’s really strange.
I wish I was one of those people who journals.
I’ve always been too critical of myself to be able to do that.
Sometimes it’s five sentences and sometimes it’s 1,000 words.
Let me think about this out loud because it’s a really great question.
There are things I chose not to write about.
I did draw that line.
But now that the book is coming out I’m realizing just how vulnerable I am in it.
Do you worry about some of that honesty getting mined for headlines?
Literally, not one word.
I am also prepared for people to feel all kinds of things about this book.
I don’t mind.
